Single-player games like Growing Up
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Growing Up, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
- 1
Notes of the Young Lady: In Turbulent Times
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
격동의 파란 속에서 한 소녀를 멋지게 성장시키자! 6년 간의 성장 대장정을 그리는 일정관리형 육성시뮬레이션!
- 2
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
- 3
When I'm Not Drawing
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
In this cozy life-simulation RPG, you play as a young artist who moves to a new city to pursue your dreams. Plan your schedule, balance life and career, explore the city, and meet new friends! Live a fulfilling year on your own, at your own pace.
- 4
K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
The ultimate crossover between K-pop and Life Simulation! Step into the role of manager and build your dream idol group by scouting talent, managing schedules, choosing outfits, planning social media, and organizing the perfect album. Can you make it to debut?
- 5
Mr.DomusMundi
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
Prince Mundi solves only global issues on the scale of the kingdom.
- 6
Emily is Away <3
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growing Up.
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
- 7
Choice of Life: Samosbor
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growing Up.
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
- 8
The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Growing Up.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
- 9
Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- 10
The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Growing Up.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
- 11
Life is Strange Remastered
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Growing Up.
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
- 12
Class of '09
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
- 13
Chinese Parents
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?
- 14
Princess Maker 5
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Growing Up.
Discover magic in our world with Princess Maker 5! A lone princess needs your care in a realm where fantasy meets reality. Guide her growth and shape her destiny. Create unforgettable memories as you raise her.
- 15
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
- 16
Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Growing Up.
A Hilarious Insult-‘em up in which players must verbally take-out their friends and family in different game modes. Assemble witty insults using different word strings, and employ combos, criticals, continuations and more to battle your opponents both offline and online across multiple devices.
- 17
Weedcraft Inc
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.
- 18
Floodland
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Growing Up.
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
- 19
Crush Your Enemies
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Growing Up.
Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.
- 20
Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Growing Up.
The boys are back , and they look better than ever! Oh…Sir! The Hollywood roast is a brand new spinoff to the surprise indie hit 0f 2016, Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator. This time around we’re taking tinsel town down a few notches, whilst classing up the joint.
- 21
The Last Alchemist
Single-player alternative to Growing Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Growing Up.
Master the wonders of alchemy! Solve alchemical puzzles by transforming and combining Essences. Craft items, tools and machines. Explore the enchanting world, gather peculiar resources, and befriend the Agari, adorable mushroom folk who will help you find the cure for your mysterious disease.